Ryann Riggs

“I, neutral cockroach body, I with a life that at last is not eluding me because I finally see it outside of myself -- I am the cockroach, I am my leg, I am my hair, I am the section of brightest light on the wall plaster -- I am every Hellish piece of myself -- life is so pervasive in me that if they divide me in pieces like a lizard, the pieces will keep on shaking and writhing.”
― Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.

“I am the priestess of a secret that I no longer know. And I serve out of blissful ignorance.

I found out something I was unable to understand, my lips became sealed, and I retained only the incomprehensible fragments of a ritual.”
― Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.

“Forgive me if I add something more about myself since my identity is not very clear, and when I write I am surprised to find that I possess a destiny. Who has not asked himself at some time or other: am I a monster of is this what it means to be a person?”
― Amina Cain, Creature

“This is the place where your life unfolds. You push something back so the other thing can come forward. This thing is anything, or it is nothing, and you see it be nothing.”
― Amina Cain, Creature